On the occasion of the European Year for Development and one hundred years after the deciphering of the Hittite language, the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples and the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l'Asia dedicate a day to the presentation of the activities of the Italian expeditions working in Turkey on sites linked to the Hittite civilization. Part of the day will be devoted to the presentation of the projects of archaeological cooperation supported by the University Suor Orsola together with other Italian institutions in the Mediterranean countries of North-Africa.

Works continue in the Hellenistic and Parthian sanctuary at Kal-e Chendar, in the Valley of Shami. Main goals of the campaign are the widening of the trenches on the so-called Stein Terrace, the rescue excavation of the monumental tombs, and the survey of the defence systems of the site.

The pictures of the reliefs of the Sennacherib’s “Palace without rivals”, displayed in the exhibition, were taken in 2002 during two survey campaigns aimed at producing an updated and detailed documentation of the state of preservation of the throne suite’s orthostats.